Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December(techcrunch.com)
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  • jleyank4 hours ago
    If that engineer isn’t heavily involved in designing the application, writing the code or debugging the code, they better make sure their 6-month emergency cash reserve is properly funded.
  • stephenr5 hours ago
    > “As a concrete example, an engineer at Spotify on their morning commute from Slack on their cell phone can tell Claude to fix a bug or add a new feature to the iOS app,” Söderström said. “And once Claude finishes that work, the engineer then gets a new version of the app, pushed to them on Slack on their phone, so that he can then merge it to production, all before they even arrive at the office.”

    I can't tell what's worse:

    - they now expect people to actively work during the commute they aren't paying you for; or

    - they're perfectly fine setting an expectation for people to work while commuting, ignoring the obvious safety issue that presents for anyone whose commute involves a car, walking, or crossing a street.

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    • i7l5 hours ago
      > the engineer then gets a new version of the app, pushed to them on Slack on their phone, so that he can then merge it to production.

      I think it's worse that a CTO doesn't seem to know the difference between a PR and an app.

      • stephenr4 hours ago
        I mean CTOs are the same people who cargo-culted mass adoption of "the cloud" for their completely static workload, and are now cargo-culting mass adoption of "AI".

        I would be more surprised if these people did understand what a PR is. $50 says this fucker doesn't know the difference between Git and GitHub either.